Daily Kos Elections Weekend Digest: Busting the Perry bubble

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Why are these guys laughing?
Because Rick Perry just had his worst polling week to date.
(Scott Audette/Reuters)
Another week passes in the interminable 2012 presidential campaign, and the GOP faithful continue to resemble a girl in middle school who falls in-and-out of love on a weekly basis.

With apologies to fans of the great Disney Channel program "Phineas and Ferb", it looks like the GOP is coming to grips with the fact that everything is not better with Perry.

And while there wasn't a ton of GOP primary data to mine this week, the data that did get released this week was not pretty for the guy that, less than a month ago, looked like he was going to run away with the race.

In other polling news, the president continued to have weak job numbers...and a lead over the entirety of the Republican field (even Rasmussen said so!). Downballot, it was a pretty data-heavy week, but it was also the kind of week which fails to allow for easy conclusions. Anyone preaching Republican landslide or Democratic resurgence would have a hard time justifying it with this week's set of numbers.

All that (and more!) awaits you across the jump with this "holy crap, it's October, already" edition of the Weekend Digest.


Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/shI9ioeOT8o/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Weekend-Digest:-Busting-the-Perry-bubble

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